Making a call to a videoconferencing room system
Most of the people that you call or have meetings with will also be users of the same system as you are and will be in your contact list. However, sometimes you may need to call someone who is not one of your contacts. For example, you might want to make a call to one of your customers that has a video conferencing system in their board room.
With Visual Nexus you can call directly to someone not in your contact list. Click on the green telephone while logged in to Meeting Manager and the call window will be shown. Firstly select the way you want to address the remote device. For a videoconferencing room system this will usually be by IP address. You can then enter the destination address and click on call. The advance button allows you to select the bandwidth that you will call at and allows you to even select the audio and video codecs to be used for the call. Normally you don’t need to worry about this and Visual Nexus will negotiate with the remote device to negotiate the best settings.
Another use for direct dialling is to call someone in who is not in your organization but still uses the same Visual Nexus system. An example may be a customer who has been given a Visual Nexus guest account but who is in a private part of the system and can not be added to your contacts. In this case they will have been given an E.164 number and you can call them directly by entering this number into the call window.
Once you have finished the call click on the red telephone in Meeting Manager to end the call in the usual way.